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$18k

by dvh 6y ago

$18k

srg0 6y ago
That's a pretty low price tag. Universal Robots are popular for research, and from what I heard start at around $30k. KUKA LBR iiwa is more like $100-200k.
bigtones 6y ago
But it can do your washing !
- prerok 6y ago
  Instabuy if it can iron too! :)
smabie 6y ago
That seems pretty cheap, tbh.
- SV_BubbleTime 6y ago
  Does it? Having worked with robotics in mfg, part of the cost is stiffness. A stiff arm and mounts means repeatable actions. In the video this thing was flexing all over the place. It’s cool, no doubt. But it seems a well placed LEGO could nearly shut it down. I’m not seeing 18k as “cheap” in any sense here. Maybe I just don’t understand the business model or what goes into this.
  - smabie 6y ago
    I assume a lot of the value is in the software.
  - skybrian 6y ago
    Based on the article, the robots researchers are interested in seem even more expensive?
jankassens 6y ago
That's the small scale developer edition. I don't know anything about home robots, but to me this seems to be the first design that is practical to bring to consumers. Not 2 human arms (or even legs) and some expensive face, but instead just a Roomba-ish base, telescope arm with grabber that moves up and down, camera on top.
- atupis 6y ago
  Yeah, they should go here price first and make cheap hackable platform that would be awsome.
verroq 6y ago
At $1.8k it would be amazing, at $18k it's a big stretch. I would buy it at $1.8k.
- samtheprogram 6y ago
  No pun intended? :)
  - verroq 6y ago
    Pun intended :)
- rawrmaan 6y ago
  No, it’s a regular sized Stretch!
- snovv_crash 6y ago
  $1.8k buys you a mid-range bicycle. $2.5k buys you a high end laptop. Both of those are made in millions. This is roughly a combo of the two. So I'd guess that with sufficient volume this could get down to the $5k mark.
  - staz 6y ago
    and a iRobot Create 2 is $0.2k
- bArray 6y ago
  Unfortunately, looking at it I doubt they would get the price point down to $1.8k easily. Maybe $5k at a push, but more than likely some consumer edition might cost more or less the same. That said, I doubt this bot will ever make it to the stage of being a consumer bot. The sorts of problems that need to be solved are on the scale of that of autonomous vehicles, probably even harder.

$18k

by dvh 6y ago

$18k

srg0 6y ago

That's a pretty low price tag. Universal Robots are popular for research, and from what I heard start at around $30k. KUKA LBR iiwa is more like $100-200k.

bigtones 6y ago

But it can do your washing !

prerok 6y ago
Instabuy if it can iron too! :)

smabie 6y ago

That seems pretty cheap, tbh.

SV_BubbleTime 6y ago
Does it? Having worked with robotics in mfg, part of the cost is stiffness. A stiff arm and mounts means repeatable actions. In the video this thing was flexing all over the place. It’s cool, no doubt. But it seems a well placed LEGO could nearly shut it down. I’m not seeing 18k as “cheap” in any sense here. Maybe I just don’t understand the business model or what goes into this.
- smabie 6y ago
  I assume a lot of the value is in the software.
- skybrian 6y ago
  Based on the article, the robots researchers are interested in seem even more expensive?

jankassens 6y ago

That's the small scale developer edition. I don't know anything about home robots, but to me this seems to be the first design that is practical to bring to consumers. Not 2 human arms (or even legs) and some expensive face, but instead just a Roomba-ish base, telescope arm with grabber that moves up and down, camera on top.

atupis 6y ago
Yeah, they should go here price first and make cheap hackable platform that would be awsome.

verroq 6y ago

At $1.8k it would be amazing, at $18k it's a big stretch. I would buy it at $1.8k.

samtheprogram 6y ago
No pun intended? :)
- verroq 6y ago
  Pun intended :)
rawrmaan 6y ago
No, it’s a regular sized Stretch!
snovv_crash 6y ago
$1.8k buys you a mid-range bicycle. $2.5k buys you a high end laptop. Both of those are made in millions. This is roughly a combo of the two. So I'd guess that with sufficient volume this could get down to the $5k mark.
- staz 6y ago
  and a iRobot Create 2 is $0.2k
bArray 6y ago
Unfortunately, looking at it I doubt they would get the price point down to $1.8k easily. Maybe $5k at a push, but more than likely some consumer edition might cost more or less the same. That said, I doubt this bot will ever make it to the stage of being a consumer bot. The sorts of problems that need to be solved are on the scale of that of autonomous vehicles, probably even harder.